August 13: looking in the fifth millennium 220 years ago, Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky (1803–1869) was born, Russian prose writer, poet, playwright, translator, author of the novel “4348. Petersburg letters ”, novels“ Sylphide ”,“ Salamander ”, etc. The last representative of the old princely kind of Odoevsky. Friends were amazed at the extraordinary breadth of his views. The prince was attracted by chemistry and alchemy, magic, music, cooking, pedagogy, medicine and philosophy.

"Luna-25" during its flight to the Moon (photo from IKI RAS)

Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya At our request, the depressive theses of Alexander Kuleshov with facts and numbers in the hands are commented on by Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya , Kand. Filol. Sciences, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Head of the IPPI Digital Documentation Laboratory in 2020–2023, and Anastasia Kotzerenko , Cand. Filol. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of the Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the laboratory since 2023.

Collage InsightFace.ai The Institute of Problems of Transfer of Information RAS, it seems, safely survived the period of interrelation.

Mikhail Tsfasman Mikhail Tsfasman , Doctor. physical. sciences, vice president of an independent Moscow University, head. lab. Algebra and theory of numbers No. 13 of the IPPI RAS, outlined his point of view in an interview with Alexei Fire on August 20. Alexey Fire. Photo by A. Semenova - A whiper of the leaders of the IPPI ... Do you understand what is happening? .. - I mean, yes. - Tell me? - I'll try. Perhaps I'll start with what.

At the end of August and early September 1977, two earth apparatuses set off on an incredibly far way-Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 1 (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2). The very idea of ​​such flights was born in the mid-1960s, when the first calculations were made that showed the possibility of achieving external planets using gravitational maneuver near Jupiter.

Douglas Hofstadter and Albert Efimov The conversation of Douglas Richard Hofstadter , Honored Professor of the University of Indiana, Pulitzer Prize laureate, with Albert Efimov , Philos. Nauak. A video version of this interview, held in July 2023, see youtu.be/mdetjisiur8 . Albert Efimov: In our difficult time, horizontal ties between scientists, the dialogs that we conduct, discussing the most urgent problems of cognition come to the forefront. No one can isolate us from intellectual life.

Alexander Markov Plastic of experts Usually, reflecting on antiquity, we immediately become dependent on some of its texts, their organization and completeness of impressions. We could not read Fukidida on a student bench or at leisure, but the tombstone speech of Perocel 431 BC. e. She entered the culture, defining many of our usual ideas.

Arseny of Bogatyrev In previous articles in the Trav-Feature, the author touched the problem of “supernatural” and science in the literary creations of Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 1 . Lady Agata in her path has repeatedly contacted archeology 2 , but, of course, she was also interested in other areas. One of the constant hobbies of the writer was the world of plants.

On July 28, an article by researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology of the Society of Max Planck and their colleagues dedicated to the ancestral home of Indo -European languages ​​was published in Science. We publish a comment by the linguists of Alexei Kasyan and George Starostin (their entire informal review is available here ). Georgy Starostin Georgy Starostin, Veda. scientific.

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 385 of August 22, 2023 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room Memory Vladimir Evgenievich Zakharov (1.08.1939–20.08.2023) - p. 15 In search of the ancestral home of Indo -European languages The recent "sensation" is commented by Alexei Kasyan and Georgy Starostin - p. 5 Alexey Kudrya: Astronovo "Luna-25", Ingenuity, clouds on Neptune, sleeves of the galaxy and star residues-p.

Alexander Buftutov. Photo by I. Schurov Alexander Buftutov 1 , Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vedas. scientific. sore. Algebra laboratories and the theory of the IPPI RAS numbers also talked with Alexei Fire. - Your impressions of the meeting with the failed and. O. IPPI director? - Maxim Valerievich Fedorov behaved extremely benevolently, very restrained. It was noticeable that he was configured to reduce tension at the institute.

Science fiction is literature, but not in the limited sense that is usually meant when people talk about “literary texts,” “human studies,” “fiction,” etc. NSF is a natural synthesis of literature and science.

Alexey Kudrya The accident "Moon-25" The Russian apparatus "Luna-25" reached the environs of the moon, but, unfortunately, did not manage to make a soft landing. The first in modern Russia automatic interplanetary station "Luna-25" was launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on August 11. During the flight, on -board equipment was tested. Two trajectory corrections were carried out.

Pavel Amnuel Let's talk about the frying science fiction, which is called the Hard Science Fiction (“hard”, or even “tough” NF) in the West, and in Russia the suitable term was proposed by Anton Pervushin 1 : NNF - scientific science fiction (according to the Homo sapiens sapiens type ). The authors working in this suck consciously put themselves in the position of scientists who study the new research field under all the laws of science.